No man was
ever better qualified to write such a book as The Idea of a University
than Cardinal Newman was. And the subject has never been more
pressing than it is today. In this classic, Newman poses a number
of important questions: What is the purpose of education? What
does it mean to be educated? What is the role of a university?
And where does Catholicism fit in?

The issues
Newman examined with incomparable insight continue to be relevant
today, one hundred and fifty years after it was first published.
This book has been recognized as probably the greatest of its
kind, and no one interested in the relationship between religion,
learning, culture and politics can afford to neglect it.